Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
2010
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Charging for Content Elicits Strong Objections among Bloggers
Free versus pay? When it comes to music, bloggers last week strongly championed free. On Twitter, strong views over privacy issues surfaced when Google released its new social networking feature, Google Buzz. And a conversation between Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly attracted over a million views on YouTube.
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Haiti, Snowstorms, Economy Vie for Public’s Attention
Summary of Findings Americans say they tracked the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti more closely than any other major news story last week, but they also kept a close watch on news about the U.S. economy and the powerful snow storms that hit the nation’s East Coast and South. Three-in-ten (30%) say they followed […]
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Religion Among the Millennials
Introduction and Overview MILLENNIALS This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial generation. By some key measures, Americans ages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans. Fewer young adults belong to any particular […]
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Millennial Generation Less Religiously Active than Older Americans
But Pew Forum Finds Young Adults To BeFairly Traditional in Some Other Ways Washington, D.C.—By some key measures, Americansages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans,according to a new report released by the Pew Research Center’s Forum onReligion & Public Life. Fully one-in-four are unaffiliated with anyparticular faith.The report is part of […]
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Mother Nature Leads the News
With its wintry TV tableaus, last week’s massive snowstorms topped a news agenda tilted toward the nation’s Capitol. Not only did Washington D.C. bear the brunt of the snow’s wallop, but Beltway-based battles over the jobs and health care came next in the roster of leading stories.
